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I understand that it is nice to be able to use the latest version of some software. Yet please keep in mind that my resources are limited. My current goal is a proper release of BBDB. Along this way, I am using the autotools to simplify things and to make sure that the released package works properly.

If you do not want to wait for that, then you should make sure that you can use what you find on savannah.

Also, MSYS is a notoriously difficult platform to port to. It may be
easier to autotool your package on a nicer machine, then copy the tarball
over to the MSYS environment with timestamps set so that configure does
not need to be regenerated, rather than bootstrapping directly on MSYS.

Well, I had a look and this is true for configure, but the thing is that EMACS does not build on MSYS for MSWindows, it builds with MSDOS console + MingW compiler chain and there is a specific DOS script supplied for that, which IS on bazaar repo here: configure.bat.

It is true that Texinfo either does not have the configure on the repo, but most open source SW which I installed and that are based on autotools build system have the configure bundled with them, so the end user does not have to generate it.

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